NASA pilot Jim Less and photographer Jim Ross pull their F-15D #897 aircraft away from a…
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Europa’s Jupiter-Facing Hemisphere
This 12-frame mosaic provides the highest resolution view ever obtained of the side of Jupiter's moon…
Coronal Loops Over a Sunspot Group
The Atmospheric Imaging Assembly (AIA) instrument on NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory images the solar atmosphere in…
SpinSat Investigation Tests New Technology, Returns Data
Equipment and data from the SpinSat investigation returns to Earth today, May 21, 2015, with splashdown…
The Advance of Hubbard Glacier
This image, acquired by the Operational Land Imager (OLI) on Landsat 8, shows Hubbard Glacier on…
Journey to Space in a Vacuum Chamber
Supporting the testing of electric propulsion and power systems, VF-5 has the highest pumping speed of…
Mount St. Helens at 35
On May 18, 1980, Mount St. Helens gave way to a cataclysmic flank collapse, avalanche, and…
Astronauts at Work on the International Space Station
NASA astronauts Scott Kelly (left) and Terry Virts (right) work on a Carbon Dioxide Removal Assembly…
Green Aviation Project Tests Shape Changing Wing Flaps
A NASA F-15D flies chase for the G-III Adaptive Compliant Trailing Edge (ACTE) project. The ACTE…
May 13, 1992, Record-Setting Spacewalk on Shuttle Endeavour’s First Mission
On May 13, 1992, following the successful capture of the Intelsat VI satellite, three astronauts continue…